Every book is an insight into someone’s soul, a lifetime of discovery condensed into an easily digestible format. Yet not all books are created equal. Most books touch you but very few can be termed as profound. One such profound book that I read recently was Quiet: The power of introverts by Susan Cain. It…
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10 years of blogging
I happened to be looking at my blog’s history and I suddenly realized that I actually first posted on this blog site on 14-Mar-2009. It was of course, a stupid Hello World blog. If you do not know what that means, Hello world is the first thing you do with any software essentially. It’s a…
Continue ReadingWhat i learned from How to win friends and influence people.
Before I decided to read this book, I used to laugh at the title and I probably looked down on people who might have read it. I mean who needs to read a book to win friends? What kind of loser would that person be? Well, here I am, one of such Losers. In hindsight,…
Continue ReadingTo crave or not to crave
It is quite likely that in the last hour you craved momentarily for something or someone or a feeling. It usually hits us out of the blue, sometimes lasting for one moment while at other times it lingers on. It could be a feeling of intense desire, it could be that sudden hunger for ice…
Continue ReadingIn my dreams
In my dreams I fly again Over the mountains there’s a patch of green It reminds me of home A place that I have only been In my dreams I push these thoughts away The images of a home I fly again over these dark fields What am I looking to find?
Continue ReadingWe need to meditate, starting yesterday!
I have often thought about writing about Meditation. But the truth is that I barely understand the concept myself. For so long meditation used to bring images of monks seated in saffron robe who have given up on the luxuries of life. And I didn’t want to give up any luxuries, hence I couldn’t meditate….
Continue ReadingJourney to the unknown : Cambodia
To read from the starting : Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, Part7, Part8, Part9 The last week of this vacation was upon me. As difficult had I found it to come, it was now equally difficult to think about leaving. I was at the border town of Aranyaprathet in Thailand and planning to get…
Continue ReadingJourney to the unknown : Aranyaprathet
To read from the starting : Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, Part7, Part8 It had been almost 2 weeks in this wonderful (not unknown anymore) country. Every second seems to be getting me closer towards the end than to the start now. It was a weird feeling. To have started this trip off in…
Continue ReadingJourney to the unknown: The golden triangle (Mae Sai, Burma, Laos)
To read from the starting : Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, Part7 Another morning in the foreign land. It was my last day in Chiang Mai. I had to wake up early to return the motorcycle. The morning cool enticed me into a leisure bike ride around the square walls of Tapae. I returned…
Continue ReadingJourney to the unknown: Thailand – Chiang Mai
To read from the beginning : Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6 I was in Thailand, in Chiang Mai city, and I was traveling alone and I had lasted much longer than I had anticipated. It had been 10 days since I landed and things were getting better and better each day. For some reason…
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